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Every February, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual meeting, the Elsevier Foundation and its key partners, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences, recognize the accomplishments of five early-career scientists with the Elsevier Foundation Awards for Women in Science in the Developing World.

Every year, the journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications sponsors the Lévy lecture, a plenary lecture presented at the annual International Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA).

The inaugural Karl Pearson Prize is awarded to Peter McCullagh and John Nelder1 for their monograph Generalized Linear Models (1983). The ISI’s Karl Pearson Prize was established in 2013 to recognize a contemporary a research contribution that has had profound influence on statistical theory, methodology, practice, or applications. The contribution can be a research article or a book and must be published within the last three decades.

STIX fonts now available for LaTeX. STI Pub Companies, a consortium of publishers including Elsevier, announced a new release of the STIX fonts, a comprehensive Unicode font set of mathematical symbols. This release includes a version for LaTeX, enabling authors of mathematical, scientific, and technical documents to incorporate STIX fonts into LaTeX documents much more easily. The fonts are freely available through www.stixfonts.org.

We are happy to announce that the archive of the this journal, has been opened up. This is effective for all published articles older than four years, back to Volume 1, Issue 1 (or the first issue available).

For more information about the open access options Elsevier offers, please see our information page.

A full list of mathematics and statistics journals with an open archive can be found here.